The Present Continuous is used:
1) to express an action going on at the present moment, at the time of speaking;
2) to express an action in its progress going on at the present period of time not necessarily at the time of speaking;
3) to express a continuous action going on at the same time with another action referring to the present time;
4) to express a planned future action mostly with verbs denoting motion.
The combination of the Present Continuous of the verb to go with the infinitive of another verb expresses an action which will take place in the near future, an intention to perform an action or something which will inevitably happen. .. „ .. ; .. t,.
THE PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE (ПРОШЕДШЕЕ ДЛИТЕЛЬНОЕ ВРЕМЯ)
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§ 60. Past Continuous образуется из вспомогательного гла гола to be в Past Indefinite и причастия настоящего времени основного глагола: . .
I We 1 *
You 1 You I were working. .,
She I was working. They J
It J "
В вопросительной форме вспомогательный глагол ставит ся перед подлежащим:
What were you telling him? Что вы ему говорили?
В отрицательной форме после вспомогательного глагола употребляется частица not: . * -■ -
I was not working in the Я не работал вечером,
evening.
В устной речи в отрицательной и вопросительно-отри цательной формах вместо was not и were not употребля ются преимущественно сокращенные формы wasn’t и weren’t:
Не wasn’t working. Wasn’t he working?
They weren’t working. Weren’t they working?
